Engine: Joel's Satellite had a two-barrel-equipped 383 installed at St. Louis when it was built. There's still a 383 under the hood, only this time it wears a four-barrel carburetor under its "unsilenced" air cleaner, which in turn wears a "383 four-barrel" pie tin.

Transmission: Column-shifted 727 TorqueFlite, with its steering-column bushing replaced (the part that caused it to roll into the river)

Interior: Joel had the stock Satellite front bench seat replaced with a '68-factory-option front buckets/center armrest combo, and he added a six-way adjust for the driver seat. The stock rear bench was kept, the front and rear seats now wear new vinyl, and A.S.E. Motorsports did their restoration work inside, too. Other interior features: air conditioning, a dash-mounted tach, and a "thumbwheel" AM radio/eight-track tape player.